The Hidden Tax on Security: How Data Costs Are Eating Your Controls Budget

The article argues that a growing, often invisible portion of security budgets is consumed by moving, normalizing, and ingesting telemetry, which reduces funding for detection engineering, threat hunting, analyst headcount, and purpose-built tools. It recommends treating the ingestion layer as a strategic security control—classifying telemetry by value, routing high-fidelity signals to real-time analytics, and applying governance to recover budget and improve coverage and onboarding speed.